ANN ARBOR, MI — Efforts to clear out beavers along a creek at Ann Arbor’s Leslie Park Golf Course have involved using a lethal type of trap the city banned four years ago. The city’s parks department, ...

The traps were set by a private “pest” control trapper hired by the White Deer Golf Course to kill muskrats in and around the golfing area. However, the traps were outside the boundaries agreed upon, ...

The Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act would amend the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 to prohibit the possession or use of body-gripping traps within the National Wildlife ...

It only took one experience with a friend’s dog getting caught in a steel jaw trap that motivated me into the quest to ban traps. All of them! Not only snares, Conibear traps and steel jaw traps but ...

Many northerners will recognize the Conibear Trap. It was invented by Frank Conibear in 1957 and lauded as a relatively humane and quick-killing device used by fur trappers. Conibear, who developed ...